- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Pellagatti
- Nickname
- Tiny
- Venus Xtravaganza was born on May 5, 1965 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. She died on December 17, 1988 in New York City, New York, USA.
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsJohn T. PellagattiOlga Barroso
- RelativesFrank Pellagatti(Sibling)Cesario Barroso(Grandparent)Justina B. Salicrup(Grandparent)Steven Podurgiel(Niece or Nephew)Kevin Podurgiel(Niece or Nephew)John Pellagatti Jr.(Sibling)Joseph Pellagatti(Sibling)Louis Pellagatti(Sibling)John Pellagatti Jr.(Sibling)Joseph Pellagatti(Sibling)Louie Pellagatti(Sibling)
- Light skin
- Green eyes
- Petite frame
- Tiny physical features
- New Jersey accent
- Of Italian-American and Puerto Rican descent.
- Venus had four brothers: Frank (1963-2005), John Jr., Joseph, Louis, and one sister named Claire.
- Venus was found strangled and stuffed under a bed in a New York hotel room. Her body was discovered by a stranger four days after her death.
- She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington, New Jersey with her birth name on her epitaph.
- Her parents were John and Olga "Ollie" Pellagatti.
- You wanna talk about reading? Let's talk about reading!
- Touch this skin, darling, touch this skin honey, touch all of this skin! Okay? You just can't take it! You're just an overgrown orangutan!
- I don't feel like there's anything mannish about me, except maybe what I might have between me down there, which is my personal thing.
- [on prostitution] I feel like, if you're married? A woman, in the suburbs, a regular woman, if you want your husband to buy a washer and dryer set, I'm sure she'd have to go to bed with him, to give him something he wants, to get what she wants. So, in the long run, it all ends up the same way.
- Some of them say that we're sick, or crazy, and some of them think that we're the most gorgeous special things on earth.
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